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JULIA - SETON, M.D 

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The Race 
Problem- 
Money 

BY 

Julia Seton, M.D. 



NEW YORK 
EDWARD J. CLODE 
















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COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY 
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CONTENTS 


I. Money.5 

II. Why do we want Money? ... 14 

III. Why we do not have Money. . 20 

IV. How to get Money.31 

V. How to Breathe in Consciousness . 43 

VI. How to Use Money.50 









THE RACE 
PROBLEM — MONEY 


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MONEY 

EFORE one can really under¬ 
stand what money means 
he must understand the 
deeper laws of life, and the expres¬ 
sions of life in the world in which he 
lives. 

The old civilization gave the race 
mind the idea of life as a dual force 
with this duality always in opposition 
— one force acting upon the other. 
These two forces were called spirit 
and matter. The old civilization held 
that matter was always the slave of 
spirit, always divorced and eternally 
subservient to it, as well as eternally 
at war with it: It found in its scheme 
of the Universe that matter and sub¬ 
stance were evil, that everything 
pertaining to them was in bondage 
and that matter was always matter 
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throughout all creation. It held that 
spirit was finer force always existent 
as spirit, always good and always the 
expression of freedom and goodness. 
It was seen also that human life 
bounded by these two expressions 
of power was either free or bound 
according to the force to which it 
gave its allegiance. 

Under these interpretations of life 
the race understanding sank into a 
sense of separation which could only 
lead where it did — into deeper and 
deeper confusion and ignorance of 
the real truth. As long as the race 
mind saw in matter something evil 
and something only to be condemned, 
rejected and despised, there could 
be no such thing as dignity for any¬ 
thing in its realm, and allegiance to 
the things of form and matter set the 
seal of damnation on those who were 
either too undeveloped or too devel¬ 
oped to reject it. 

With this belief in their minds and 
this deadening law of duality in their 
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hearts, the olden races dragged on, 
ground to dust and ashes between 
the wheels of a law set in operation 
for themselves. They tried as best 
they could to be true to a false ideal, 
and generations were born, and gen¬ 
erations died, fighting an objective 
fight with the things of the world in 
which they had to live and a subjec¬ 
tive fight with their own desires. 

Centuries passed and when the 
race mind stood at the very pinnacle 
of separation, one-half worshipping 
the world of form and living in bond¬ 
age to the manifested, the other wor¬ 
shipping the world of the formless and 
unmanifested God, Jesus, the Christ, 
was born. He brought with Him the 
connecting link which gave the truth 
of life so clearly that in it could be 
seen the unity of spirit and matter. 

He brought the race a new idea, 
and he linked in one grand master 
stroke the whole objective world of 
form and the subjective world of the 
formless. He said in words too plain 
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to be misunderstood: “All that my 
Father hath is mine; ” and, “ I and 
my Father are one.” 

He brought this message of unity 
to an old race mind sunken every¬ 
where in its old idea of separation. 
Only the really evoluted minds under¬ 
stood His meaning, but He stamped 
His message on the hearts of the 
multitudes and for two thousand 
years it has percolated through the 
race mind and in the new civilization 
of the twentieth century it is more 
fully understood and interpreted. 

Jesus did not differentiate between 
the things in form and the things in 
the formless; He said: “Whatso¬ 
ever ye ask believing, ye shall re¬ 
ceive.” He knew that God, His 
Father, was all and that God had 
only one thing out of which to build 
the world and that was Himself. 
He knew that all things were God’s 
and that the race was in a God-world 
of God-substance; that whatever the 
race wanted or needed it had only 
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to ask and receive, to seek and find. 
There is nowhere any history of a 
break in His own line of transference 
from spirit mind into spirit form. He 
stirred the higher etheric vibrations of 
spiritual substance and the waters 
turned to wine. He touched the 
higher law of the unmanifested sub¬ 
stance down through the etheric 
waves; He fed the multitude, and 
projected silver into the mouth of the 
fish for their supply. From the in¬ 
visible realm of spiritualized con¬ 
sciousness He brought forth visible 
form, and at His touch spirit became 
master and passed into tangible 
use. 

With this matchless picture of the 
Christ message, the new civilization 
is awake in the higher idea of supply, 
and money is only a picture of the 
form of supply the race has projected 
for itself from limitless substance. 

We know now that all material 
phenomena are spiritual arrangement 
within the consciousness of man and 
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that everything the world calls matter 
is but an emanation from the one 
substance and that the finite is only 
in reality a symbol of the Infinite. 

The power back of the projection 
into form is desire , and the desire in 
thought brings it out into expression; 
desire is the prophecy of fulfillment 
— “ as a man thinketh in his heart, 
so is he.” 

Money is only a symbol of race 
desire and a medium of exchange 
which is used to give each life the 
fullest expression objectively of its 
subjective self. 

As the race evolution went on there 
came about between individuals and 
races a legitimate exchange of these 
possessions in form, one gave to the 
other something he had, for some¬ 
thing he had not, and they soon found 
that the one having the most desires, 
had the most things, or symbols, of 
desire, and that having the most 
things, they could have the largest 
exchange. 


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So barter and trade and competi¬ 
tion were born into the world. If one 
tribe had a large number of sheep, 
and another had no sheep, but owned 
a vast number of cattle, then, if they 
desired exchange they could express 
their desires in trade; and if two 
cattle were of more value to the one 
desiring them than four sheep, he 
then paid the equivalent of his desire 
and possessed the cattle. 

As human desire grew more and 
more in its intensity, and the races 
learned finer and finer methods of 
expressing these desires, there came 
about the race consciousness of many 
who knew nought but the desire to 
amass things in form, many desired 
only material possessions and sought 
only material good, forgetting that 
there were many forms of desire 
within the soul which had at some 
time to be expressed as they went 
on into perfect unfoldment. This is 
the state of consciousness in which 
the rich man lived who said: “ I will 
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pull down my barns and build greater, 
and there will I bestow all my fruits 
and my goods. And I will say to my 
soul, ‘ Soul, thou hast much goods 
laid up for many years; take thine 
ease, eat, drink and be merry.’ 

“ But God said unto him, * Thou 
fool, this night thy soul shall be re¬ 
quired of thee, then whose shall those 
things be which thou hast provided?’ 

“ So is he that layeth up treasure 
for himself, and is not rich toward 
God.” 

Everyone must come sooner or 
later into the soul consciousness 
which desires other things than the 
purely material, and when this hour 
strikes, the wholly material things 
will be dust and ashes in the life of 
those who possessed them and these 
things of purely physical pleasure will 
cloy and the desire of the soul will be 
for higher and higher forms. 

Centuries have passed, and cen¬ 
turies have come! The race mind 
has gone on in finer and finer con- 
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centration in its desires and finer 
methods of expressing these desires; 
until today the symbol by which men 
manifest their desires for material 
expression of supply has taken finer 
centralization. Cattle, gems, serv¬ 
ants, slaves and so forth, are no 
longer bartered, but every human 
desire among the higher races is 
summed up and symbolized by gold, 
silver and greenbacks, and called 
money: This money stands as a line 
of transference between the man 
invisible, and the man visible and 
with it he brings around him and 
works out in form all the desires of 
himself. Money is simply the con¬ 
necting link between spirit mind and 
spirit form a divine substance used 
by man; it is neither good, bad or 
indifferent, neither high or low, it 
simply is. 


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II 


WHY DO WE WANT MONEY? 


^w^E want money because at 

ill P°* nt 011 t ^ ie human 
\|/ path of evolution money is 
a medium through which we can 
work out our hidden ambitions and 
aspirations. Every moment the un¬ 
seen active states of consciousness 
within us are striving to push them¬ 
selves out into expression, and money 
is the medium through which certain 
definite states of human desire can 
be materialized. 

In this world of form mankind wants 
to be surrounded with form, and 
money is in the line of transference 
into form. Money gives man the 
power to fit his environment to his 
increasing mental and spiritual recog¬ 
nition; with it he takes away from 
himself the limitations of lesser 
understanding and pushes his life 
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into new settings, keeping pace with 
his larger ideas of individual growth. 

The race demands money because 
with money it can supply its wants, 
and with it all the material progress 
of life is carried forward. The race 
would have no need of finer ideas of 
form and civilization unless it had 
with these ideas the means of pushing 
them into expression and usefulness. 
Use is the test of everything and 
money is needed to bring the ideas 
out where they can be utilized by the 
race mind. Civilization is pushed on 
or retarded just in the degree that it 
makes use of the higher conceptions 
of higher human revelation. Today 
the gigantic ships that sail the oceans 
are a tribute to the union of higher 
mind and higher form, brought about 
through larger material supply. The 
aeroplane of the hour is again the 
tribute of the same power, the desire 
of man is to conquer all nature, and 
this desire can only be worked out into 
some tangible form through supply. 

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The magnificent mines and gardens 
of the one time arid West are also 
active tributes to the law of material 
freedom; the wonderful libraries of 
the past and present, the gigantic 
galleries of painted and sculptured 
art, all stand as an embodiment, in 
form through money, of the throbbing 
genius of the subjective consciousness 
of man and the finer expression in 
form. 

To desire to express in form all the 
great latent ideas throbbing in the 
race mind is a God-born impulse. 
Today we ask for money, demand it, 
because it is our divine inheritance 
and belongs to the larger under¬ 
standing of the world plan. 

Standing in the midst of divine 
supply, himself a God, man at last 
has recognized the divine command: 
“ Ask and ye shall receive,” and deaf 
as the old civilization has made the 
race ears through ignorance, there is 
now, and always has been, the deep 
inner voice which whispers of its 
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divine right to express all of itself in 
any way and at any time. All the 
deep subjective states of conscious¬ 
ness within the being clamor to be 
embodied, and those who have much 
alive and active within them, will have 
much to embody, and will seek in 
manifold ways to embody it. Money 
becomes a part of our desires because 
it is a part of God and the way in 
which we can embody and extend our 
personal consciousness out into the 
world around us. 

“ No man liveth unto himself, and 
no man dieth unto himself,” — he is 
always a part of the universal life and 
one with all that it is. There is not 
a life, high or low, good or bad, 
that today has abundance of money, 
and who is giving his own desired 
life complete fling, but who, at 
the same time, is dragging, shelter¬ 
ing, evoluting and sustaining hun¬ 
dreds of other weaker and younger 
lives. 

Men grow to the greatness of their 
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own desires under money’s wing. Of¬ 
ten, it is true, the wing shelters a nest 
of vipers, but the fault is not with the 
money, it is only because at that point 
in their soul-life’s unfoldment, they 
are simply vipers in consciousness. 
We want money because we all want 
more life, and life with essence within 
cannot refuse to urge itself out into 
expression in form. So the God-born 
impulse in the heart of the race pushes 
it on and on in union with every¬ 
thing which will bring out into use all 
the deep centralized states of latent 
power within us. 

Money neither makes nor mars 
men, it only gives them the chance to 
show forth to the world the thing that 
they are, and so long as there is life on 
this planet, men will want money, 
have and hold it and use it, because it 
is the gift of God and because in the 
universal understanding, by the use of 
money, the man-God works out the 
likeness of himself, and surrounds 
himself with symbols of his own soul 
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desires, until in daily contact with 
himself, he comes at last to work out 
and symbolize the God-man, living 
and moving in a “ glorified environ¬ 
ment.” 


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III 

WHY WE DO NOT HAVE 
MONEY? 

^tb-^E do not have money simply 
III because at one point in our 
\|/ unfoldment we lack the 
understanding of the laws of money. 

All life is law, and the price of the 
good part of life is understanding of 
law. Without the law of life we are 
only on the edges of living and are not 
in life itself. Jesus said: “ Not one 
jot or tittle of the law shall pass 
away,” and, “ I came not to destroy 
the law but to fulfill it.” Only as 
man can learn the law of his own life 
and relate it with the universal life, 
can he work out his desires into 
perfect expression. 

On the path of life, like attracts 
like, and men do not gather grapes of 
thorns. Some of the race are rich 
today and some poor according to the 
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law they have set in operation for 
themselves and not, as the old world 
thinks, by accident. Poverty and 
riches are not things of external 
chance or vague happening, they are 
the conditions we have fashioned for 
ourselves in our consciousness. The 
new civilization knows that all ex¬ 
ternal things have their origin in the 
interior states of the mind, and that 
interior recognition makes exterior 
form. Poverty is the picture of one 
state of consciousness, riches the 
expression of another. Lack inside 
is lack outside, abundance inside is 
abundance outside. 

The old civilization taught that all 
external conditions came as the re¬ 
sult of external action and that pov¬ 
erty was the polar opposite of wealth 
and was the result of the rich tak¬ 
ing supply away from the poor; it saw 
an individual's line of transference 
blocked by the greed of another. 
Through old-thought centuries the 
race lived and believed this inversion 
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of the truth and crept on in resistance, 
strife and condemnation, never know¬ 
ing where to put the blame. From 
this false premise of reasoning there 
came all the tyranny and bloodshed of 
the past. But today a veil of con¬ 
sciousness has lifted, and the new 
race mind sees life in its entirety and 
not in the part. One after another of 
the old race obsessions are lifting 
from our belief and we see the deeper 
working out of the law going on every¬ 
where in human destiny. 

All life is a school and each life is 
in its own grade, poverty is simply one 
of the lessons of one grade, riches the 
lesson of another. There are millions 
of lives on this planet today who are 
poor because they have not evolved 
to where they are able to conquer 
supply. The first step in the grade 
for the poverty-stricken is to learn to 
conquer supply and this conquest is 
brought about not from without but 
through the slow process of awa¬ 
kening perception, which neither 
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the race nor the individual can 
outstrip. 

As soon as they have learned this 
lesson they pass on into the next grade 
where they learn how to use money, 
and their place is immediately taken 
by another learning the other’s old 
lesson. Jesus said: “The poor ye 
have always with you, but me ye have 
not.” He knew His place on the 
path and He knew the place of the 
poor. The new civilization knows 
that there are now and always will 
be, these babes in wisdom who must 
be poor, and poverty will be their 
natural portion until they lift it from 
themselves by increasing unfoldment 
and understanding. We see daily 
that if we filled their hands with gems 
and their hovels with comfort, there 
would still be only gems in a beggar’s 
hands until some stirring of deeper 
recognition went on within them. 

Those who know life see and under¬ 
stand this first cause of poverty, and 
then looking more deeply they see 
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that until the last man of this race, 
and of many other races, lies dead, 
the beggars of earth’s supply will be 
in our midst, because, back of the 
beggars’ sores and hovels there is 
still the mind, the heart and the 
understanding of a beggar. 

The second cause of poverty is the 
false education of the past which, 
instead of hastening race evolution, 
has served to keep it in its old bond¬ 
age. The church for centuries has 
owned the mind of the multitudes and 
the church has throughout all these 
centuries pushed the idea of poverty 
into the race mind and kept it there. 
The church, more than any other 
factor, has helped to hold the race 
mind in its bondage to poverty, for 
the church has held before the mind 
of the evoluting masses the picture of 
a Christ as a leader and an idealized 
object for emulation, and it has made 
this picture one of a bleeding, broken 
and poverty-stricken Christ-hood. It 
has distorted the grandeur and maj- 
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esty of Christ life and led the race 
mind away from fuller and greater 
paths of selfhood. In addition to this 
Christ ideal of poverty, the church has 
pointed the race to their old God¬ 
head — a dual force — earth and 
heaven, and has given it a mighty 
God and an angry devil, and all the 
things of freedom from poverty it has 
given to this devil, and all lack and 
suffering to this not too friendly God; 
it said, “ Whom the Lord loveth, He 
chasteneth.” 

The old race mind was too unde¬ 
veloped to think for itself and so for 
ages it lived by the thought-force of 
its leaders and men built their lives 
to express these beliefs. As long as 
men believed in two forces — God 
and devil — spirit and matter — they 
received these things, for there is 
nothing in all the world but thinking 
makes it so. Held in the bondage 
of the old-thoughts and beliefs, men 
created and re-created their own lack 
and limitations. 


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Under these teachings the multi¬ 
tude developed a poverty-stricken 
cringing consciousness, and every¬ 
thing in form being projected from 
the inner states of consciousness, it 
could not escape the law it set in 
operation for itself. 

The race was taught that to be poor 
was to be spiritual, that it was “ easier 
for the camel to go through the eye of 
a needle than for a rich man to enter 
the kingdom of Heaven ” and living 
in the lie of a futurity which they 
received from St. Paul, they suffered 
on in misery, hoping and trusting 
that in some far off future day, a 
heaven (if they deserved it by their 
faithful poverty) would be given them 
for their pain. These old obsessions 
of race thought and race interpreta¬ 
tion held the multitude in their iron 
clasp for centuries and strange as it 
may seem, even now in the very 
centre of an enlightened century, 
there are still many of these minds 
hugging to their hearts this old delu- 
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sion and dragging on in penury and 
despair. 

There are thousands who today are 
poor who still cling to this old tradi¬ 
tion, only from false religious ardor 
and lack of self investigation. 

Another obsession of the race mind 
is the one of inheritance. It is yet 
said by those who should know bet¬ 
ter: “ Oh, I am born to be poor.” 
They are born to be poor only as long 
as they will not, do not or cannot 
learn the law of supply, and while 
there are many who are born to be 
poor in understanding, there are 
thousands who are fast working 
through their grade and are ready to 
come out into a new action of the law. 
The power to stand still under a law, 
or to go on into relationship with 
another is within the individual him¬ 
self, but not knowing this, he stands 
still, accepting an old condition as 
binding, when within himself there is 
the awakening power for freedom. 

The new civilization brings a new 
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message and there are many millions 
in these days out into a new kingdom 
of thought who are bringing new laws 
into operation in their environment. 

We are poor and will stay poor, 
only as long as we relate with the 
laws of poverty; success, money and 
supply can be planned for by every 
life just as scientifically as one can 
build a house or plan a city. 

Supply cannot refuse to come to 
any one who sets a supply law into 
operation; but the race must be 
taught this law, and brought step by 
step away from the old ideas and ob¬ 
sessions of the past into a new under¬ 
standing and use of new methods. 

Poverty and money are the results 
of interior states of mind and only as 
mind changes will material change. 
There are childish states of con¬ 
sciousness which operate against 
material harmony; worry, hate, fear, 
anxiety and condemnation are interior 
pivots for exterior hovels and 
wherever man rests his idea and 
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his energy, substance must gather 
round. 

A mind that has been poised 
through incarnations in the belief 
of poverty and its power, and backs 
this belief in the present with childish 
states of mind, — anger, worry and 
fear — will find poverty abiding with 
it. Environment is only a big pond 
in which each one sees himself re¬ 
flected. A man in the bread line or 
one who sleeps on the benches in 
the park, is doing that not because 
circumstances force him to it, but 
because with his own ignorant ma¬ 
nipulation of the laws, he has forced 
circumstances. 

Lack will remain only as long as 
we have within ourselves the germ 
that intensifies it, and we will secure 
money, wealth and freedom only as 
we grow into it out from the natural 
states of our minds and hearts. 

We are poor because we do not 
know any better than to be poor, and 
we stay poor because we are too 
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ignorant, too weak or too inert, or, 
too superstitious, to hold our life 
servant to the higher laws of life and 
compel a new physical arrangement 
by an ever-increasing recognition of 
our own God-power. 


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IV 

HOW TO GET MONEY 

I N the old-thought method 
there are five ways by 
which we can get money 
and men use one or all of these at 
different places on their path, but 
there is always one of these ways 
which they intensify above the others 
and this intensified way becomes 
their line of transference, through it 
they bring to themselves the worked 
out forms of their desires. 

These ways are: First, to inherit 
money; Second, to attract it; Third, 
* To marry it; Fourth, To work for it; 
Fifth, To find it. These are all ob¬ 
jective and belong to the age of 
objective individuality. 

The first method is inheritance. 
When born into a rich family we be¬ 
come the inheritors of dead men’s 
legacies, we come into this through 
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the law of our own desire. One ego 
had mastered supply in some pre¬ 
vious incarnation and we chose to be 
bom in at-one-ment with it. In such 
cases money and its conquest is not 
the lesson our soul came to learn in 
this life, but we came to leam some 
other lesson, sometimes the one of 
love, sometimes justice, and the use 
of wealth. This method claims many 
lives and it is one of the easiest 
pathways. 

The second method — attraction — 
comes to those who have finished the 
grade of work and do not yet under¬ 
stand the law of active creation for 
themselves. Attraction follows work 
and is one of the easiest pathways 
to supply. Many lives are at this 
point of unfoldment and it is an 
accompaniment of the lighter side of 
labor. 

There are many, who, holding fast 
to some work, attract to themselves 
the aid and co-operation of those who 
have conquered wealth and who have 
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abundance. There are two kinds of 
possession: one is passive, one active. 
Those under the law of attraction for 
wealth come under the law of passive 
possession, they use as their own the 
things which belong to others, and at 
any hour or at any place the owners 
can demand their own. So we find 
the lives under this law full of spas¬ 
modic possession, they are up today 
and down tomorrow until they learn 
to make themselves one with the law 
of active possession and create and 
hold their own. 

The third method is a very popu¬ 
lar and universal method. Marrying 
money is to some a noble pastime. 
The blase nobleman marries the 
daughter of the wealthy commoner 
and completes his line of transfer¬ 
ence into wealth without effort. The 
whole trend of the old civilization was 
to this end; the entire education of 
the old-thought woman was to marry 
for supply; women for centuries have 
lived under the law of passive posses- 
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sion. The long history of alimony 
and divorces easily tells the story. 
Women have for centuries sold them¬ 
selves to the highest bidder, and sold 
body, mind and spirit for supply. 
To marry money was in the past, and 
is now on a certain level of under¬ 
standing, the principal occupation, 
it is not confined to women alone, 
men caught in the drag-net of this 
level of unfoldment do not hesitate 
to take advantage of this law. 

There are thousands living in hate¬ 
ful environment and unhappy associa¬ 
tions, because through this law of 
marriage they keep wealth around 
them. There are many at that partic¬ 
ular point of unfoldment where they 
are either too ignorant, too unde¬ 
veloped, or too lazy to walk out into 
their own independence. These tell 
their misery to every listener and if 
one asks them to come away from 
their old habit, they say, “ I cannot,” 
while some others look at the ques¬ 
tioner and say, “ they will no/.” 

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But the new civilization knows they 
cannot Will to Will, because back of 
their minds certain active ideas oper¬ 
ate to bind them to the laws they have 
built for themselves; they drag on, 
getting the higher unfoldment through 
material dependence. 

The fourth method is Wording 
for supply and conquering poverty 
through one’s own endeavors. This 
is by far the largest line of transfer¬ 
ence and the hardest lesson to learn, 
but in this law everywhere the race 
works through the lesser levels of 
understanding and comes out into 
relationship with the law of abun¬ 
dance, with this struggle for exis¬ 
tence there comes the development 
of many latent characteristics of the 
selfhood. To those laboring through 
the work plane, life seems hard and 
sometimes not quite worth while, 
but it has in it the germ of a di¬ 
vine realization which brings its own 
reward. 

The fifth and least used method 
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is finding money. There are many 
people who have at some supreme 
hour of need picked up money which 
some one had lost. Some lives have 
made their way comfortable with the 
amount they have found, but this is 
an uncertain method and is only the 
objective answer to a great subjec¬ 
tive momentary need. 

Begging is also a means of getting 
money, but it does not exist as a 
separate line, it belongs as one of 
the minor lines of attraction. 

All these methods were the laws 
of the old race mind, and they will 
continue to be for those who do not 
awaken into deeper understanding. 

We have a larger vision and a 
wider inclusion and the new civiliza¬ 
tion sees all these methods as only 
lines of transference over which 
humanity reaches itself. Inheriting, 
attracting, marrying, working for, or 
finding money are only material links 
between man and his desires. 

The past races received money 
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under these old methods and they 
took on the things which go with 
those methods — loss, contention, 
strife — but the new race is getting 
wealth over the same lines of trans¬ 
ference and getting it from an entirely 
different centre, from a new under¬ 
standing of laws. The new race gets 
wealth to last forever and gets it in 
harmony and peace. 

The old races worked with two sub¬ 
stances, two forces, and had a world of 
objective and subjective power. They 
always lived in the law of separation 
and overcoming, and as money was 
matter, and wealth belonged to the 
devil, there was little joy or peace in 
the possession, even after it was 
accomplished. If they inherited 
wealth they lived in fear of losing it 
again, or they lived in tumult because 
it might be diverted to other lives. 
If they worked for it they labored and 
repined and never were sure that 
work and supply would last, they were 
always in fear of losing their work, 
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and with this a deadening uncertainty 
about their money. If they attracted 
it, they lived in the harmony of fear 
of losing the friend; if they found it 
they never knew when they would 
find more; and if they married it 
they often paid such a big price of 
inharmony for it that it turned to 
dust and ashes in their grasp. 

So life went on, driven to bay at 
every side, until at last, bom of this 
conflict the deeper states of conscious¬ 
ness of man became unveiled and 
truth came out. 

The new civilization, living under 
a new idea of life, brings out new 
methods and more perfected results. 
We begin at the beginning of all 
things in form and here we find the 
self, and through the consciousness 
of that self, linked with the atomic 
mind of universal substance, we link 
our lives with the universal law of 
supply, and then we only choose over 
which line it shall manifest for us. 
We can inherit it, and make it an 
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instrument through which we have 
freedom to express our deepest de¬ 
sires; we can attract it, and stand 
forever beside the life that helps us 
put our own life into harmony and 
usefulness; we can marry it, and live 
with it in all the accompanying states 
of peace and power and love, making 
our own life and the life of another a 
divine bliss. We can Work for it, 
and with this working learn the 
thorns and heart aches of our kind; 
we can find it, and at every place on 
the path where our soul stands in 
deep need, we can pick up the answer 
to our prayers. We can do all these 
things only as we have found the law 
and worked out the understanding of 
the law which God seemed to have 
written in riddles in the past. In the 
ages gone by, men did not know how 
to sail the seas, or tunnel the earth, 
or conquer the air, nor was there a 
Burbank to teach them the crossing 
of natural laws. As soon as men 
knew more they expressed more and 
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today all these things are in the law of 
psychological consciousness. There 
have arisen psychological Burbanks 
who are working with the unseen 
natural laws, bringing the race mind 
out into new found expressions of 
conscious power. 

We now know that the conscious¬ 
ness of man is always united with the 
consciousness of God, or universal 
mind, and that all possession in form 
comes through recognition in mind. 

There is a law of divine transfer¬ 
ence to every life and that is each 
one’s own consciousness and no one 
need spend another hour in lack or 
need once he knows this law. His 
supply is only limited by his own power 
of manipulating the law. What¬ 
ever is outside our field of conscious¬ 
ness, does not exist for us, and the 
thought of lack and poverty, and the 
recognition of our wealth, cannot 
occupy our minds at the same time. 

In order to conquer lack, we have 
only to build for ourselves a supply 
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consciousness. Realization and ac¬ 
tualization of wealth will come through 
strife or force, but by subjective trans¬ 
ference to the self through the power 
of the self it comes to remain as long 
as the higher law of the self is ful¬ 
filled. 

Fine psychiatry and not exertion is 
the new race method; under this 
method man works out his old laws 
of lack and comes into new expres¬ 
sion of power. He gets wealth and 
holds it, for it is his own, projected 
into form through the extension of 
his consciousness. 

Creation in consciousness is the 
law of the new civilization and when 
man can create his own environment 
in his own mind, he will not have 
long to wait before it gathers round 
him in form, and it will grow more 
and more perfect, keeping pace with 
his ever-increasing understanding. 
Just to know the law; get operation 
of the law, abide in the union of life 
and law and the work is finished. 

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He who knows the law and abides, 
comes into the protection of the law, 
and becomes one with abundance 
of supply on every plane, an abun¬ 
dance which no one can limit but 
himself. 


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HOW TO BREATHE IN 
CONSCIOUSNESS 


CD 


ANY lives have perfect re¬ 
alization long before they 
have actualization; they 
have hoped and prayed, aspired and 
believed, and yet they do not bring 
their hope into form. 

The reason is plain, they are living 
with their mind under the law of 
opposites and not in unity of thinking; 
they think wealth, success and supply 
today, and tomorrow they live in the 
idea of lack. They live one hour in 
faith and the next in doubt and fear. 
They are continually sowing two kinds 
of thought-seeds and they cannot 
help but reap a mixed harvest. 

We must receive what we emanate 
and the first step towards wealth is 
to remember this. Our life becomes 
the picture of the thought emanation 
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we intensify and after hours of doubt 
and fear, thoughts have been vitalized 
which will persist and which are not 
antidoted with feeble ideas of wealth 
and success. “ Not everyone that 
saith unto me, *Lord, Lord,’ shall 
enter into the Kingdom.” 

We gather at the harvest what we 
sow. Arnold says: “See yonder 
field, the sessamum brings sessamum, 
and com brings corn.” 

The first step toward wealth is 
recognition of wealth and nothing else. 
Thoughts are like streams and each 
thought runs in its own channel and 
the mind that is given over entirely 
to wealth and success and supply 
creations, can have no room for the 
creation of lesser things. The mind 
must be taught to see opulence. 
There is no lack in the universe, only 
in the minds of men, nothing in the 
universe recognizes economy save 
man, and he only at one place on the 
path. Man alone is capable of per¬ 
sonal creations so we must believe 
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THE RACE PROBLEM 


he builds his own laws and he either 
unites or divorces himself from his 
source. Wealth is a part of the all 
life and exists as substance and is 
capable of being drawn to anyone who 
recognizes it and demands it. 

There is only one substance, and 
man differentiates this substance ac¬ 
cording to his own recognition. We 
can pass this substance into the every 
day need or the future expectancy. 
We can create every finite thing for 
ourselves in thought-form first, we 
can call forth homes, business, food, 
shoes, travel and education, then 
success and supply must come out in 
form if we have created them in mind. 

When man has at-one-ment with 
his inner law, he can command 
illumined feet or illumined mind. 

God, the great Universal Life, is no 
respecter of persons or demands. 
“ Whatsoever ye ask,” Jesus said, 
and it is for us to decide and com¬ 
mand; the atomic mind of universal 
substance waits our authority; there 
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THE RACE PROBLEM 


is concerted action between the com¬ 
mand of man and atomic intelligence. 

God, the Universal Mind, wants us 
to have whatever we want, and will 
help us to get it, and aid us to hold 
it as long as we want it; no one takes 
away from us but ourselves. As 
soon as we learn that this law is, then 
we must learn to operate and daily 
live in its operation. We must first 
get the idea, then push it out in 
thought-form; as long as we only 
have the idea, we have only realiza¬ 
tion, but when we can pass the idea 
into perfect thought-form and hold 
eternal allegiance to this vision, we 
are on the path to immediate actuali¬ 
zation and the allegiance will bring it 
into our environment; in this land of 
make-believe we become as little 
children and a child is the greatest 
in the Kingdom of Heaven. 

In our consciousness we must see 
the perfect thought-picture of the 
thing we desire. Every one knows 
what he wants, every one has a divine 
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image toward which he is realizing. 
No matter what our desire is, we 
train our mind to possess it instantly 
in consciousness, and see it perfect 
at all times. 

Creation in consciousness comes 
slowly at first, for the ordinary mind 
has not been taught to hold a perfect 
vision; the old distorted visions of 
the lesser thinking will intrude again 
and again; negative forms must be 
displaced with the perfected form 
with which we wish to be environed. 

There is not an hour in our lives 
when we are acting without a vision. 
We are always creating either the 
thing we want or the thing we do not 
want, and the new civilization realizes 
the folly of creating for itself the 
thought pictures of the things, which, 
when they appear, can only bind it 
closer into limitations. 

There are some minds that are 
full of negative images, their whole 
field of consciousness is lined with 
distorted thought-forms of poverty 
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THE RACE PROBLEM 


and bad luck; shanties, hovels, mis¬ 
fortune, doubt and fear — these have 
been their daily projections and they 
have vitalized them until they ma¬ 
terialized. 

After we begin to create in con¬ 
sciousness, some of our thought- 
images will be crude, but so are an 
artist’s first pictures crude, but to 
those who really see the vision and 
feel the law, there is no turning back 
and there can be no such word as 
failure. Standing fast in an unfalter¬ 
ing faith, with the vision perfect in 
consciousness, anyone can drive the 
new creation straight through their 
old environment and holding it there, 
the atomic mind of substance cannot 
refuse to produce it around us in 
form. 

Plenty of whatever we project, or 
make believe, must come out into 
form, our realization becomes actuali¬ 
zation and we are then in our law of 
divine transference which no one can 
limit but ourselves. 

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This is the pathway of the new 
individual, a pathway that leads him 
from and to his source; it is the 
great God-path, it leads from spirit 
mind to spirit form. 

Creation has then begun in under¬ 
standing, and wealth, success, money, 
limitless supply of anything we de¬ 
clare, must come out from the form¬ 
less universal substance and abide 
with us, and from everywhere around 
us a thousand unseen, unthought-of 
things will form the link that passes 
us to our supply. New friends, new 
privileges, new opportunities, new 
hopes, ideals and new aspirations 
will all link us with the universal 
abundance. We become so full of 
the divine creative energy of our own 
minds that, in our thought embrace, 
we can catch the empty nothingness 
of space, and myriads of forms of 
human necessities will come out into 
perfect harmony. 


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THE RACE PROBLEM 



VI 

HOW TO USE MONEY 

*FTER the race has learned 
the law of the conquest of 
money, or material freedom, 
there remains still one more grade 
to make. This is the use of money 
and the law of harmonious, con¬ 
structive distribution of the things it 
has the power to create for itself. 

But the new civilization sees the 
deeper psychology of race unfold- 
ment and teaches from the deeper 
laws of race evolution. The lesson 
of getting money is only one of the 
many lessons we are all learning and 
after we have finished this, we have 
yet to learn how to use our own 
creations. 

There are many thousands who do 
not understand or master the law of 
getting money, and there are just 
as many who, after having gotten it, 
have not learned the law of con- 
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THE RACE PROBLEM 


structive use; they are yet babes in 
the use of their abundance. Opposed 
to these, there are glorified rich men 
and women in every race and every 
country, who are using their wealth 
for God, for man and for themselves, 
and their gigantic monuments of 
helpfulness are unveiled hourly in 
the benediction given them by the 
loving hearts they have rescued from 
the lower levels of living. 

There are two laws under which 
the race operates the use of money. 
One is the personal, the other the 
universal, and every one passes 
through the personal life first and 
comes by the law of transmutation 
into the universal one. 

Money gives everyone the privilege 
of working out themselves, and 
in the first development, human 
life is always personal. The self is 
always uppermost at the personal 
place on the path and those who come 
into possession of money in the self- 
consciousness, use it for the self. 

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THE RACE PROBLEM 


Jesus said: “It is easier for a 
camel to go through the eye of a 
needle than for a rich man to enter 
into the Kingdom of Heaven.” He 
knew that a mind anchored in the 
pursuit of the wholly material idea 
would not be materializing the in¬ 
terior states of desire, and He knew 
that Heaven is self-harmony, for he 
said: “The Kingdom of Heaven is 
within you.” He knew that no har¬ 
mony can come until life has 
found and united the personal with 
the universal laws. Selfishness al¬ 
ways means inharmony because it 
means separateness, not unity, and 
those who have wealth and are us¬ 
ing it for purely personal aggrandize¬ 
ment, are only students in the great 
life class and money becomes their 
teacher, and through the reaction of 
the personal laws which they throw 
down upon their own lives they learn 
their lessons and they find the cure 
of the thing in the thing itself. 

We are all engaged in just one 
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THE RACE PROBLEM 


work in the world and that is trying 
to express ourselves. The personal 
minds are always selfish in their first 
expressions; they set their own pace 
for self expression with the money 
they have created and they absolutely 
compel other weaker thinkers to 
follow their plan. Unless we know 
where we stand in our own minds, 
there is no chance of escaping being 
used by them, and as long as the race 
is not anchored in its own under¬ 
standing, this “ using ” is all right, 
for by the constant friction it occasions 
within itself, the soul at last opens 
its eyes in recognition of life’s finer 
laws, and its own higher selfhood, 
and takes its first step toward self- 
preservation. 

Everyone in the world is working 
consciously or unconsciously toward 
higher and higher expression of him¬ 
self, and it does not make the least 
difference what anyone else thinks 
about his expression, the way may 
often seem a poor way to those of us 
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THE RACE PROBLEM 


who have been through those same 
methods, but, nevertheless, it is a 
good way for the one using it, and by 
it he is pushed on into fuller inclusion. 

Everything in the whole world is 
legitimate material for our use, we 
may use just as much or as little as 
we know how to use. If we are 
inclined by our lack of knowledge 
and selfishness to use things destruc¬ 
tively, the universal law takes its 
own time to fix its adjustment. 
“ The mills of the gods grind slow, 
but they grind exceeding small,” 
and some day we meet our self and 
settle the debt with his own coin. 
On the path of life, like attracts like 
— if we sow the wind we reap the 
whirlwind. 

The part of the race that allows it¬ 
self to be used past the point of 
psychological tolerance on the per¬ 
sonal plane of action, has only itself 
to blame, and this is the only way by 
which the finer forces of their own 
consciousness can be mined out. 

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THE RACE PROBLEM 


The personal life leads everyone 
from experience to experience, and 
these experiences become so inter¬ 
mingled with others’ experiences, 
that humanity is everywhere bound 
together in the one great personal 
law, and pays and is paid out in its 
own coin. 

Whatever anyone needs for his 
next step in unfoldment, desire drives 
him on to find, and he is answerable 
to himself and God only for his 
selection. 

At one point on the path, the hearts 
of men will seek satisfaction through 
personal selfishness and exaltation 
of the ego. Personal human desires 
are bounded always by pain, loss, 
disappointment, and the heart-break 
of life, but all these form the ladder 
by which we climb past our dead 
selves to higher things. All these 
separate, personal satisfactions are 
the flowers of the tree of life whose 
root is truth. 

The universal and true use of 
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THE RACE PROBLEM 


money includes the personal satis¬ 
faction, it means literally — seek first 
the kingdom of harmony and under¬ 
standing within the self, and all these 
external things will be added — be¬ 
cause they come as the result of our 
powerfully poised, tranquilized con¬ 
sciousness. 

In the true use of money we can 
have all our desires expressed to the 
fullest and live in glad rapture minis¬ 
tering to the need of others. “The 
river widens as it nears the sea,” 
and with our own life made powerful, 
free and unlimited, we can stand as a 
great revolving light for the darkened 
minds of the evoluting multitudes, 
and know that money really is, why 
the race mind resolutely demands it; 
and knowing the deeper laws of 
conquest over it, and knowing the 
higher uses of it, we can make our 
lives become pathways of peace, 
power and wisdom, over which the 
whole human race can pass into 
actualization. 


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We can give of all we have to those 
who have not, not “ all we have,” 
for that would again beggar us, but 
of all we have, and give without stint 
full measure pressed down and run¬ 
ning over. 

The new race mind is turning 
eagerly to be taught these new 
lessons and just as it grasps quickly 
the new method of conquering its 
own poverty, just so quickly can it 
be taught the higher universal use of 
the money it has created for itself. 

The new race civilization will live 
life as Gods, one with an abundance 
too high for contradiction and it will 
truly say from the depths of its new 
soul wisdom: “All that my Father 
hath is mine,” and know that 

Within the self there is the land Elysium, 

Within the self all things begin and end, 
Wealth and success are but the quickening 
spirit 

Which all may feel and feeling compre¬ 
hend. 


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